Within
seconds of hearing the musical stylings of Orgy, I was forced to check
the liner notes to see if they were produced by Trent Reznor of Nine
Inch Nails fame. They are not, even though Orgy does have obvious
influences from many new wave acts from the 80’s, not to mention modern
acts like Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson.

Orgy plays nice and loud with scorching guitars, hard hitting and huge
sounding drum sounds all underneath dramatic (if not sometimes
over-the-top) vocals. Their A&R man did them no harm by choosing to
release the cover song "Blue Monday" as the single. Much like how
Marilyn Manson broke into popular favor, Orgy uses a familiar melody to
introduce to the world their S&M laden, techno-metal sound. Unlike
Marylyn Manson, the rest of 'Candyass' is actually pretty good. Cut 11
"Revival" and the lead in track "Social Enemies" are straight up, kick
ass.

While Orgy doesn’t surpass White Zombie as my favorite Threshold of
Pain demo CD, it is not far off. Melodically, their songs are way
better than average. After ten or so times through my CD player, I find
myself still very interested. I can’t say that about five other CDs
I’ve heard this year. If you like it loud and kinky, you’ll like Orgy.